The Coates School District was organized formally in August 1900 and a one-room schoolhouse built in 1901 by contractor Robert Nicholas Wyatt operated in the southwest corner of SE25-4-28W in what is now the Municipality of Two Borders. The school closed in 1934 due to low enrolment. The district was dissolved in 1956 and its catchment area became part of the Edward Municipal School District.
Among the teachers of Coates School were M. Semple (1901), A. W. Farrow (1901), Annie B. McGregor (1901), Mr. Wellwood (1902), Olive May Shewmon (1903), Mr. Burns (1903), Miss Livingstone (1903), Grace Cassils House (1904), Miss Helga Bardal (1904), Sarah L. Hill (1905), Edith Sterling (1906-1909), Gertie Turner (1910), Helen Anderson Harmon (1911), M. Hagerman (1911), Agnes Forsythe Erickson (1911), Charlotte Perin (1911), Agnes Forsythe (1912), Alice M. Bissett (1913), Lillian Riddell (1914), Marge Bray (1916-1917), Olive Henderson (1918-1920), Pearl Brown Milne (1920-1922), Bertha Woods Lewis (1924), Hope Littlewood Wilmot (1926-1927), Anne Forbes (1928), Eva Reynolds Grierson (1929), Edna M. Eldred (1930), Margaret Gilchrist Braaksma (1931-1933), and Marg Anderson (1934).
Coates School (no date) by George Hunter
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 56.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.32616, W101.13196
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Robert Nicholas Wyatt (1877-1954)
School District Formation Files [Coates School District No. 1091], GR1688, E0027, Archives of Manitoba.
One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.
Our First Century, Town of Melita and Municipality of Arthur: 1884-1984 by Melita-Arthur History Committee, 1983, page 234-235.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 June 2023
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